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Martin Monday: The New Negro

Is this discussion a precursor to some of our discussions today? Here, Dr. King talks about the confidence, assertiveness, and honesty the new Negrow has as compared to the duplicity seen before in the face of an oppressive society.

20Apr2009 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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Langston Hughes #blck Film Festival April 18-26 in Seattle

Update: So I apparently was mistaken from the Beyond Broadway article. This is in fact in Seattle, not New York. My apologies.
Anyone who has met me knows that I rep Chicago hard. I love my city and appreciate the wealth of experience, food, knowledge, and beauty reverberating from it. Just this once, however, I am [...]

10Apr2009 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued
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National Museum of African-American History Gets Some #blck Architect Genius

Have you seen the final designs that emerged from the architects bidding to shape the National Museum of African-American History? I caught wind of the process via my Google reader and just had to share.
From the Washington Post:
[T]he Smithsonian Institution unveiled conceptual designs from six prominent architecture teams for what could be the last important [...]

8Apr2009 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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Calling All #blck Writers: $10,000 Literary Award Available

I came across this today in the reader and wanted to share it with all of our awesome talent out there:

Ernest J. Gaines Award

The Baton Rouge Foundation of Baton Rouge, La., is seeking nominations for the 2009 Ernest Gaines Book Award, a literary prize honoring the Louisiana native who wrote “The Autobiography of Miss Jane [...]

31Mar2009 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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10 Easy Ways to Change the World

Ok, do I think the list below will change the world? Not exactly. I do think opening our minds to ways to improve ourselves, our relationships and communities is the beginning of changing the world. I am fairly certain we cannot change other people. Only ourselves. Our own minds. If I want to see more [...]

27Mar2009 | Garry | 3 comments | Continued
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Blogging While Brown…About Science

Each time I read an announcement for the upcoming Blogging While Brown Conference, June 19-20, 2009, in Chicago I get excited. The format is straight-forward and the conference itself should be a great networking experience.

Blogging While Brown

Track No. 1 - John H. Johnson Track
This track will feature sessions related to blogging about current events, [...]

26Mar2009 | dnlee | 6 comments | Continued
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Calling All Seattle Foodies

Seattle Times
Chef Daisley Gordon

Live in Seattle or going to be there around April 18th? You should go and check out Food as Art, a fundraiser and gala that is part of the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas.
Similar to the mission statement of our blog, CD Forum’s vision is to inspire new thoughts and [...]

18Mar2009 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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Ty’sheoma proves we have a chance. Obama agrees!

Reading about Ty’sheoma Bethea in Howard Witt’s Chicago Tribune article, I could not help but be reminded of a quote by Charles Schwabb:
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
A [...]

25Feb2009 | Garry | 2 comments | Continued
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A Few Great Books to Check Out

One of my Washington University professors, Prof. Gerald Early, has co-published a book called Best African-American Essays: 2009 that collects a diverse set of educated opinions about topics we’ve all been bandying about.

Best AFrican-American Essays: 2009

As described by the Christian Science Monitor:
[E]arly and Dickerson ponder some of the larger questions surrounding this project.
Who speaks [...]

23Feb2009 | Fredric | 3 comments | Continued
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Becoming American: The African-American Journey

It is with great pleasure that I review my latest read on African Diaspora entitled Becoming American: The African-American Journey by Howard Dodson. This world’s view of the African American journey offers a unique chronological approach that affords readers an opportunity to begin discovering the active, generative role blacks have played in the making of [...]

20Feb2009 | Kimberly | 0 comments | Continued
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Largest General Science Conference Meets in Chicago

This weekend (February 12 -16, 2009), I will be in Chicago attending the annual meeting of The American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS publishes the magazine Science and is the world’s largest general science conference. Thousands of scientists, including students, educators (K-12 and college), policy-makers, and researchers, will be in attendance in [...]

13Feb2009 | dnlee | 0 comments | Continued
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Domestic Violence: Be a part of the solution, not the silence

You are currently on the internet, so you probably know the most recent allegations surrounding two of our successful, beloved superstars (Rihanna and Chris Brown).
The telling thing about this story is that you can be wildly successful, rich, famous, and respected and still (allegedly) make one of the poorest possible choices on a night you [...]

12Feb2009 | Garry | 7 comments | Continued
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